skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It may be a waste of space, yes, but space is cheap.

Also, it is extremely valuable to have these tools on every browser I happen to use. I can see what's wrong with my website--or anybody's website--at any computer. If you go to some page and something doesn't work, I can just open the developer tools on your browser and try to sort it out.

So while most people don't need these tools most of the time, they can still be useful once in a while and have a negligible cost.
Isn't the whole issue about they not selling the assets to pay staff/credors? But for using the bulk of the assets to spin a clone of the failed company?

This is just the peanuts that were left
Companies need to understand that they should seek revenue before customers and vanity metrics.
Ben Lang Is "Somewhere In The Desert," Mapping The "Startup Nation"
Sticking to 140 would be a good standard for a microblogging standard since it would allow you to syndicate out to Twitter and you could emulate the API and automatically have other apps support that character limit.

If you go beyond 140 it is then no longer a microblog post, but rather just an ordinary blog post.
> then it's likely distributed directly through apk , there's no way to identify them using a centralized way.

You can identify them via md5 hash of the apk, the "versionName" attribute and the "versionCode" attribute.
As someone who has never visited good reads, you have the ratings in parenthesis, but, what are they out of?

(4.11) doesn't really tell me much, is that 4.11 out of 5, or 4.11 out of 10? (To pick a random rating).

Yes, I can not be lazy and visit the site to find out, but if you are leaving the comment up to be helpful, it would be appreciated to clarify their rating scheme for those of us who aren't familiar.
Do Zynga’s troubles mark the end of the latest tech bubble?
> I did something like this, but using xpath queries, only problem is when they decide to change these

That's a strong reason for going with a library that is used by multiple users (more people to distribute the workload over). But more realistically, you can just use the existing API endpoints because there are client apps in the wild that rely on those APIs working the same way-- at least until Google sunsets Google Play.
My experience with outsourcing a development project to India
I think this is a bit of an unfair, perhaps even elitist post, and certainly seems a bit against the culture here at HN.

Why so much text devoted to tearing down without a single suggestion as to how they could do better, or where their flaws are now? Is it that you can't give $1000/hr advice for free, but instead have to defend the value of that $1000/hr?

I am most definitely not a security expert, but this sure seems like a step forward, and has some really interesting aspects to it from a Bitcoin perspective. (that they can deposit to the offline storage without actually touching the offline storage is one)

Yes, the most glaring issue is there is only one offline storage site. But if the person with the decryption key is different than the person with the safe deposit key (and I suppose more than one of each) then I don't see the glaring issue.

Please offer constructive criticism instead of just tearing it down.
Interesting, I'll have a look at your workaround. It's truly awesome the things you can do with static files right now - no need to worry about a server staying up, having enough space, etc, etc.

I think the main use for this is going to be uploading images at a reasonable resolution. On mobile, you rarely want to upload the full 8 megapixels from the camera. The fact that you can scale it down client side is awesome!
Seven Google Nexus 7 tips
High-Speed Photography Turns Water Droplets Into Liquid Sculptures
Now under a more open CDDL license.
That's good news.

Mik
Maybe I'm just not being imaginative enough... but will a gigabit internet connection really make this hackathon that much different than any other? Is bandwidth normally a productivity bottleneck at most hackathons?
I am waiting for a proof.
And all this money... To program on the minority platform with a dropping market-share, which you can be banned from if you and Apple happen to disagree about what is good fun and not.

That's a pretty shit deal.

Compare it to the Android deal: It now has over 75% of the smart-phone market. Developing on it can be done for free, using free tools, on any PC or Mac, basically any platform with a JVM. Chances are you can do it on a machine you are already own. Applications can be distributed freely, directly to your friends, without the need for any store approval.

Android in short: Zero cost. Ready to go on things you already own. Full freedom.

Whoever wrote this and decided that iPhone games was the thing kids needs to learn must be smoking some pretty heavy weed.
haven't hired the mbas yet :P
Its not a very well written article, was a little annoying to find that in the end he was just making a painfully semantic argument
Of course. The Community Edition (free and open source, no field of use restrictions) of IntelliJ IDEA is just fine for Android Application development. You can develop for Android without an IDE at all.
Facebook’s native Android app release tipped imminent
This is a cop out when it comes to explaining failure. It wasn't a management, technology, vision, etc problem which are all attributable to decisions made but instead we ran out of cash (something mgmt has less control over by implication).

When companies succeed, it was management prowess. When they fail, it's exogenous "headwinds". It's commonly seen in big and small cos.

What's more interesting is that based on this statement, the company's biz model actually seems to be raising financing. Very 1999-2000 of them.

Btw, this is not to imply that capitalization is unimportant but if you are running out of money and need more, you either convince someone to give it to you or you make some hard resource allocation decisions and reduce your short-term plans so you can live to fight another day. Failure to do so is simply a management failure (no matter the nice spin).
Ask HN: Anyone operating celery on Elastic Beanstalk?  How did you do it?
At least you made an effort.. do you feel closer to HN?
Ocius Releases MyResidentNetwork(SM) Mobile App for iOS and Android Smartphones
Translation: they don't deserve as much empathy from me because they make crappy cakes.
Came to comment on this specifically. OnLive was doing "cloud gaming" as in pre-render frames in the cloud and stream them to the device. It has the initial wow, but the devil is in the details, and OnLive had to solve them all at once:

1. Data caps are now the norm. A service that streams video 100% of the time is swimming upstream. OnLive would also need to recoup the significant costs of an uplink capable of serving all its customers full-HD streams. Typically a video service heavily uses a CDN (think Akamai) to only upload a few streams and then have the CDN push those out to edge servers. OnLive needed enough bandwidth to be its own CDN. And cellular data is an even thornier problem in terms of reliable throughput AND latency, which both have a direct effect on OnLive's service.

2. Game Studios are famously protective of their high-value assets. OnLive needed to convince some AAA studios to do a new release of their titles on its service. Engineering the games to work well with OnLive isn't the only problem here: it would be easier to be wholly acquired by a big studio than to convince anyone in the industry to do a deal that fit OnLive's marketing. Game studios want to see big up-front profits on opening day. OnLive's marketing was more along the lines of a trickle of profits over a longer term.

(Yes, they had some titles, but they needed bigger ones.)

3. The OnLive marketing about enabling some amazing capability (like cinema-quality graphics or breakthroughs in AI) swims upstream against what the "cloud" is supposed to offer. An OnLive session for one customer takes several machines, while the "cloud" basically makes money by stacking idle VMs so it's many customers to a machine. The only way OnLive would make money is if everybody rented the AAA title and nobody played it.

There is some really interesting tech in that space, but those are some basic problems with what OnLive was trying to do.
Sphero: from Concept Robot to Polycarbonate
Yeah, I'd say a big red cancel button (or maybe give the "Pay" button the whole bottom slice, and have a traditional red X button in the corner), and the ability to dismiss the dialog by clicking outside of its frame would go a long way here.
This is awesome guys, great work. One quick nitpicky thing that I don't think has been addressed yet: In Safari after the cancel button has been clicked, clicking the button fades in, then out, and in again before you can enter anything. Edit I'm using Safari 5.1, doesn't seem to happen in 6.
When most people tell you to pursue your passion or follow what you love, don't you think they're really saying, "think real hard about what you like, and go do that" rather than "notice you've already put a ton of effort into X, realize that's what you are passionate about, and go do more X."? It's a semantic argument if you interpret "Follow your dreams!" the latter way, but I don't think most people do.
The dashboard no longer shows repos I actively contribute to. Thats bad mkay.
Sometimes you really do have 100 million like-things. Partitioning can also be thought of a very compressed form of index, most of which are implement as some hierarchical data structure. This kind of hack basically is because of a weakness in implementation for this use case.

A more cohesive feature to help address this case is under discussion in PostgreSQL, but still nascent. There are notes here:

http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Segment_Exclusion

The goal is to retain most of the 4GL qualities of SQL while still getting advantages in physical data access, not unlike how regular indexes work today: in their most basic form they make no semantic alteration.

To some extent, data reorganization is inevitable: you can just hope to make it incremental, on-line, safe, and convenient.
Persona Password Reset Phishing Flaw
I just tried to reset my Persona password and was surprised by the flow:

1. Persona asked me to choose a new password and confirm it, right then and there.

2. I received an email with this text "Forgot your password for Persona? It happens to the best of us. Click here to reset your password."

3. Clicking that link provided no further confirmation before changing my password.

Usually, a password reset link is sent by email, and the user then chooses a new password. This means that it's always the user who chooses the password. Users are conditioned to this. Even if somebody else generates a password reset email, the user can just ignore it, or even if they then decide they want to reset their password, they can follow the link and reset their password.

With Persona, however, someone else gets to choose the password. The user gets sent an email that looks no different from the usual password reset email. But if they just so much as click that link then someone else has changed their password. I can imagine some users might be surprised, trust Persona, and close the tab.
Let's check wikipedia.

"Proprietary software or closed source software is computer software licensed under exclusive legal right of the copyright holder.[1] The licensee is given the right to use the software under certain conditions, while restricted from other uses, such as modification, further distribution, or reverse engineering"

Muddying the waters by referring to open source software as proprietary software does not help. And I am sure the folks at Mozilla, being open source advocates themselves, would tell you the same thing.

Reminds me of an ex-boss (from a long time ago) who referred to all open source software as "freeware." Hey guys, the 1990s called, they want their bad hacker movies and confusion about the software business back.
Me and Windows 8 (and Start8) - Delphi Programmer Adventures
Backbone - from The Web Developer Toolbox
I am so, so glad that I decided to apply at Gaikai and not OnLive... :'D
Veracity - The next step in DVCS?
OK can you explain kernels and their role in transformations (f.e. the dimension formula)? No you can't this way. And it truly has an INTUITIVE explanation (so much more than the intuitive ess of a spreadsheet!).
I believe it's Tower that plays that role. I know a designer who uses it, who would be bewildered by the CLI git.
Hate to do this (but will have to anyway because you're misrepresenting that authors article),

- you've mixed in with nonlinear phenomena (most physical processes) with linear, and there's less and less reason to pretend linearity with increasing computer speeds (although in fairness you alluded to models being wrong)

- poo pooed spreadsheets without explaining why (you alluded to QM etc. but they don't care about useless proofs in linear algebra unless they're pencil pushing time wasters)

- implied infinite-dimensions is practically useful when it isn't (unless you're a mathematician/theoretical-somethingist seeking to extract tax-payer money)

There's little need to get linear algebra in you unless you want to waste time.
IPhone 5, iOS 6 Reception Problems For Some AT&T MicroCell Users - Fix Under Way
Linear Algebra was at the core of almost every math and cs course I took. I ended up taking several semesters of it and by the end we were approaching highly relevant problems in subjects like quantum mechanics and machine learning. I cannot recommend studying it highly enough!

If anyone is interested in building an understanding of Linear Algebra from the ground up, I would suggest some of Israel Gelfand's work: http://www.scribd.com/doc/35985818/Gelfand-Lectures-on-Linea...
It's not for the light hearted, but when you get through it, you will be deeply changed and have a new perspective on even basic math, such as integration.
Thanks a lot for answering my questions, you've been very helpful!
Congrats Dan! You totally deserve the success of building a great platform. However, I'd like to put a different perspective here just for clarity's sake:

The data source you quote (BuiltWith) clearly mentions that Visual Website Optimizer http://visualwebsiteoptimizer.com/ is installed on 6300 websites v/s Optimizely's 5144 websites. (Ominture Test and Target is installed on 10,000+ websites). So '#1 testing platform' is clearly how you chose to interpret. In terms of total number of websites that use a platform, Omniture still is #1

For a fair comparison, here are our stats:

- 1850+ customers (our lowest public plan is $49 v/s yours $19)

- 14 employees

- Profitable and bootstrapped

I hope the A/B testing market and products mature thanks to healthy competition. Good luck!
now can i have a rhythm-box,nautilus ..all running inside my browser :D !!
I was just about to say the title is extremely sensationalist and inappropriate for HN, but the mods beat me to editing it -- like a second after I typed this up.
If you're solving DE's by hand you were probably just in a class taught by members of the Mathematician-Teaching Complex (allusion to Military-Industrial Complex).
Weirdly enough, I think if you don't require it, I'm more likely to use it anyway. I call it the 'how dare you' syndrome.
EBay vs. PayPal
No catch, I've been using it for years, and always wondered why people preferred github.
I've thought about that impersonating password window on OS X a lot too. I like your solution although I'm pretty sure nobody is going to implement that. It only makes sense if we go back to browsers taking over for login, then there could be a uniform approach that could also be outside of the browser controlled window area.
Ask HN: Best Credit Card Present Merchant Providers?
Hey all,

I'm working on a system that will accept swiped credit cards. I have done a ton of work with other CNP (Credit Card Not Present) providers in the past, but i'm having a really hard time finding quality Credit Card Present merchant providers. I've contacted several, but they all seem sketchy or have insane rates.

I would really appreciate any recommendations!
> Er, this is a copyright case. What does this have to do with patents?

A concerted effort to bring everything under the umbrella of 'Intellectual Property', so they can claim that violating any of the laws relating to copyright, trademarks, trade dress, patents, and so on is morally equivalent to stealing $50 from an old lady.

Maybe it would have worked better if they tried to equate it to rape, instead.
there was an API which i found a while back, but it didn't work at all, all the unit tests it had failed, so my guess was that google changed their api once again and the project was worthless. The solution i came up with was the only reliable one i could build. It was only like 6 lines of code.
I'm curious - you seem to be saying that theorems are useless, and instead, all we ever need to do is write programs to twiddle the numbers and work things out that way.

So what would you need me to do to show that proving theorems is important? What would convince you? What is your criterion for a successful response?
I just added fauxbar[0] to chrome, which fixes the worse feature of chrome - the bad history integration when typing in the url bar. I love both, too, but this addition to chrome puts it back in the lead.

[0]http://code.google.com/p/fauxbar/
I actually think you might have the logic flipped here. The only thing that has a real chance of making a lasting impression on the world is science and engineering. Fulfilling your roles as a social person is highly ephemeral.
With all due respect, those are good points, but it looks like you got your PR coverage mainly because you're a YC-backed company. Am I wrong?

P.S. - the links to the press coverages are all broken.
We've open sourced the 3d Maya file that we've been working on the past few months. We'd love to hear your feedback!

http://www.indiegogo.com/hackert0wn?c=activity&a=1498290

Thanks,

psytek

P.S. We've also split the project into phases as per the suggestions and added much more concrete details. Keep the feedback coming!
With respect to device fragmentation on Android: why do you even have to support all the devices with your first game? Thinking of it another way: by developing for iOS, you "dropped" support for even more Android devices (all of them). So why not just develop for the latest Android version, and expand if your game becomes successful.

Is the "iOS grosses more than Android" thing still valid? Have any of your interns made good money with their games?
> He does cast for the performance he wants though - not sure what director doesn't?

A director will do what they can, but there's a reason Orson Welles directed Charlton Heston playing a Mexican.
You find a piece of metal on Mars next to a 1 tonne rover made mostly out of metal. I wonder what the most likely source of the item could be...
The UI looks great! I wish I had this when I was traveling in Japan.
The container prep will be done offsite. This is a prefab project.
Vu0tran, as you can see, others would be more than happy to help you with "unshitifying".
Maybe hoards of undergraduates?
Personal web design - Adapt your interface, too
The key to personal web design is adapt your content and interface by trying to identify the user’s purpose based on whatever information available to you, especially including his previous interactions with your site (or application).
Any real evidence that interns are any worse than full-time employees?
> but I have a feeling it'd leave me sad.

it'd leave you seriously sad, if you have any morals. Grooveshark do not pay royalties on most of their streams, it's really pretty shameful. They abuse the hell out of the DMCA.
I'll tell you why: the 'git' in 'github' which helped to create all the hype around it. I came across lots of developers that thought github was somehow related to Linus, and for them and everyone else it was almost intuitive that github was the way to go if you wanted to use git.
According to the Apache project, a project is "considered to have a diverse community when it is not highly dependent on any single contributor (there are at least 3 legally independent committers and there is no single company or entity that is vital to the success of the project)." Rust might meet that standard in the future, but it is not there yet.

With regard to JavaScript versus NaCl / PNaCl / etc-- I've heard all the debates before, and they are kind of tedious. ECMAScript is a good language for some things, but making it the only option is goofy. I think Mozilla is shooting itself in the foot by not supporting PNaCl, which is the one thing that could potentially save their "boot to Gecko" initiative from disaster. I guess the Adobe Flash and ActiveX experience left emotional scars that haven't healed yet. Oh well. Their loss, Apple/Google/Other app stores' profit.
I used to append "wiki" to >90% of my searches as well. Finally got in the habit of using DuckDuckGo bang syntax now.

w! <query>
I think this was the time when OnLive could have gone for "debt restructure" and save the company for a few years. Either it would have been successful in business or could get more payout.
educational centers and hackerspaces have already been done. We want to make this into more than just a hackerspace. It will be a hacker theme park sort of. With everything you could imagine a hacker (not just the software types) would want.
Farming hard drives: how Backblaze  weathered the Thailand drive crisis
Forget that, the service has about 10 games. Total. No way am I going to make a long term investment of $50 per game into a service that can't grow its library with the new stuff coming out, and that could implode at any second.
I like the structural subtyping. This is a feature I also like in Go.
Shipping containers cost about $5k each new... The lot we're buying costs $950k - both well within our initial $1.5M budget.
We launched a bit early to get it up for Maker Faire. We've revised several times now. Thanks for pointing this out.
thank you ! should help in coursera's pgm course somewhat i guess
Check out http://ecobrooklyn.com/ he's our architect, he's been doing this successfully for years.
Should the schools teach students to move a pointer around a monitor?
IOS 6 new privacy settings cause some iPhone 5 Apps not work
Why “The Real Reason Silicon Valley Coders Write Bad Software” is wrong
Not sure what you mean here. The rent for a private studio is $500/m and for the retail store is $1000/m We're buying the lot so we'll only have to pay property tax.
This article is wrong. Here's why: http://ikaisays.com/2012/10/09/why-the-real-reason-silicon-v...
HTML5 video will Never autoplay on iPhone/iPad
You're giving out your product's source code to customers anyway. How is hosting slightly newer versions of it on your own servers a big thing?
Williamsburg, a block away from the Graham Ave L train.
On tough days at work, I am often reminded of Vladimir Vukićević's blog post about the "best visual representation that I’ve seen of what a programmer’s job is often like":

http://blog.vlad1.com/2008/07/21/other-peoples-thoughts-on-p...

[links to a humorous video with NSFW audio commentary]
I'd say a good MVPt0wn would just be a hackerspace or a coworking space.
Yeah I can imagine the patent infringement: "a web interface for source version control" -.-
I'm really interested in knowing the prereqs I should have before picking up a book like this. Coming from a weak math background I find these books highly appealing but mildly intimidating. Also, could someone advise me on the preferred order of tackling the following Books?

1. Think Bayes

2. Think Stats

3. Programming Collective Intelligence by T.Segaran